Administrative Requirements

The Premier’s Awards have 12 categories to showcase achievements and progress towards the NSW Premier’s priorities, and nominations can be made for both individuals and teams. The categories are: Improving Government Services Driving Public Sector Diversity Creating Jobs Reducing Domestic Violence Improving Service Levels in Hospitals Tackling Childhood Obesity Improving Education Results Protecting Our Kids Keeping our Environment Clean Building Infrastructure Faster Housing Approvals Reducing Youth Homelessness The most outstanding individual winner within the 12 categories is also awarded the Premier’s Award for Individual Excellence and Achievement.

The RIAF provides for independent advice and assurance to an agency’s existing internal project delivery processes and is complemented, post implementation, by the NSW Government Program Evaluation process.

The Policy: establishes a Gateway Coordination Agency (GCA) for each major category of spend: INSW as the GCA for capital, DFSI for ICT projects and Treasury for major recurrent projects.

The Government approved a revised Gateway Policy in December 2016 The new policy applies with immediate effect to all General Government agencies and Government businesses.

The Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Regulation 2015 requires guidelines to be issued by the Treasurer regarding investment and liability management performance, including benchmarking.

Content and Nature of Proposals for Inclusion in Bills Bills will contain the following matters only: minor amendments proposed by government agencies minor amendments by way of pure statute law revision proposed by the Parliamentary Counsel repeals of obsolete or unnecessary Acts (subject to any remaining operative provisions being transferred to other appropriate Acts), proposed by government agencies or the Parliamentary Counsel savings and transitional provisions.

These RDOs are applied to employees covered by the Crown Employees (Skilled Trades) Award.

In summary these ‘Early Close Procedures’ require the preparation of a set of pro-forma financial statements and the preparation of non-financial asset valuations and associated disclosures.